DAFx26 Organizing Committee

Local Organizing Committee

  • Mark Rau (MIT) - Co-organizer
  • Kurt Werner (Soundtoys) - Co-organizer
  • Elliot Canfield-Dafilou (Yale) - Paper chair
  • Jatin Chowdhury (MIT)
  • Champ Darabundit (McGill) - Webmaster
  • Orchisama Das (King's College London)
  • Kaylyn Holmes (Harvard University)
  • Jin Woo Lee (MIT)
  • Shahan Nercessian (Splice)
  • Paris Smaragdis (MIT)
  • Alex Tung (MIT)

Contact

If you have any queries or questions, please contact the organizers at dafx2026@gmail.com.

DAFx Executive Committee

  • Vesa Välimäki (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)
  • Stefan Bilbao (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland)
  • Kurt Werner (Soundtoys, Somerville, MA, USA)
  • Martin Holters (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany)
  • Orchisama Das (King's College London, Londgon, England)
  • Fabián Esqueda (KORG Germany GmbH, Berlin, Germany)
  • Mark Rau (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)
  • Stefania Cecchi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)
  • Leonardo Gabrielli (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)
  • Alberto Bernardini (Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy)

DAFx Founding Board

  • Daniel Arfib (CNRS-LMA, Marseille, France)
  • Peter Balazs (Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • Nicola Bernardini (Conservatorio di Musica "Cesare Pollini", Padova, Italy)
  • Stefan Bilbao (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Philippe Depalle (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
  • Giovanni De Poli (CSC-DEI, University of Padova, Italy)
  • Myriam Desainte-Catherine (SCRIME, Université de Bordeaux, France)
  • Markus Erne (Scopein Research, Aarau, Switzerland)
  • Gianpaolo Evangelista (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria)
  • Simon Godsill (University of Cambridge, UK)
  • Robert Höldrich (IEM, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria)
  • Pierre Hanna (Université de Bordeaux, France)
  • Jean-Marc Jot (DTS, CA, USA)
  • Victor Lazzarini (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland)
  • Sylvain Marchand (L3i, University of La Rochelle, France)
  • Damian Murphy (University of York, UK)
  • Søren Nielsen (SoundFocus, Arhus, Denmark)
  • Markus Noisternig (IRCAM - CNRS - Sorbonne University / UPMC, Paris, France)
  • Luis Ortiz Berenguer (ETSIS Telecomunicación - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
  • Geoffroy Peeters (IRCAM, France)
  • Rudolf Rabenstein (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany)
  • Davide Rocchesso (University of Palermo, Italy)
  • Jøran Rudi (NoTAM, Oslo, Norway)
  • Mark Sandler (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
  • Augusto Sarti (DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Lauri Savioja (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland)
  • Xavier Serra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
  • Julius O. Smith (CCRMA, Stanford University, CA, USA)
  • Alois Sontacchi (IEM, Univ. of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria)
  • Jan Tro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
  • Vesa Välimäki (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland)
  • Udo Zölzer (Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany)

Programme Committee

  • Alberto Acquilino (Western University)
  • Alexander Adami (IIS Fraunhofer Institut)
  • Jens Ahrens (Chalmers University of Technology)
  • Benoit Alary (IRCAM)
  • Randall Ali (University of Surrey)
  • Guillermo Arámburo Rodríguez (L-Acoustics)
  • Federico Avanzini (University of Milan)
  • Jeremy B. Bai (FAU)
  • Isabel Barbancho (Universidad de Málaga, ATIC Research Group)
  • Roser Batlle-Roca (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Stefan Bayer (Nokia Technologies)
  • Giuseppe Bergamino (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
  • Alberto Bernardini (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Maurizio Berta (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Stefan Bilbao (The University of Edinburgh)
  • Matthias Bittner (Vienna University of Technology)
  • Lancelot Blanchard (MIT Media Lab)
  • Jose Luis Blanco (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Braxton Boren (American University)
  • Yann Bourdin (Arturia)
  • Enrico Bozzo (University of Udine)
  • Valeria Bruschi (UNIVPM)
  • Marcelo Caetano (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
  • Guilherme Campos (University of Aveiro)
  • Sergio Canazza (University of Padova)
  • Elliot Canfield-Dafilou (Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University)
  • Thibaut Carpentier (IRCAM)
  • Alistair Carson (University of Edinburgh)
  • Stefania Cecchi (UNIVPN)
  • Vasileios Chatziioannou (Institute of Music Acoustics)
  • Junting Chen (University of Salford)
  • Yu-Hua Chen (National Taiwan University)
  • Ming Cheng (National Taiwan University)
  • Tian Cheng (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
  • Min Jun Choi (Seoul National University)
  • Woosung Choi (Sony AI)
  • Jatin Chowdhury (MIT)
  • Gianluca Ciattaglia (DII, Università Politecnica delle Marche)
  • Jason Corey (University of Michigan)
  • Samuele Cornell (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Stefano D'Angelo (dangelo.audio)
  • Francesco Dal Rí (Conservatory F. A. Bonporti, Trento)
  • Gloria Dal Santo (Dept. of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University)
  • Stefano Damiano (KU Leuven)
  • Roger Dannenberg (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Champ Darabundit (McGill University)
  • Orchisama Das (CCRMA, Stanford University)
  • Gian Marco De Bortoli (Aalto University)
  • Enzo De Sena (University of Surrey)
  • Aaron Dees (TU Dublin)
  • Kristjan Dempwolf (PreSonus Software)
  • Philippe Depalle (McGill University)
  • Rodrigo Diaz Fernandez (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Sascha Disch (Fraunhofer)
  • Christian Dittmar (Fraunhofer)
  • Pierre Donat-Bouillud (Czech Technical University)
  • Michele Ducceschi (Univeristy of Bologna)
  • Lars Engeln (Chair of Mediadesign, Technische Universität Dresden)
  • Fabian Esqueda (Korg Germany GmbH)
  • Georg Essl (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
  • Gianpaolo Evangelista (independent researcher)
  • Ricardo Falcon Perez (Aalto University)
  • Christof Faller (Illusonic GmbH)
  • Michael Fioretti (UNIVPM)
  • Federico Fontana (University of Udine)
  • Dominique Fourer (IBISC - Univ. Evry / Paris-Saclay)
  • Leonardo Gabrielli (DII, Università Politecnica delle Marche)
  • Riccardo Giampiccolo (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Jean-Louis Giavitto (IRCAM - UMR STMS 9912 CNRS)
  • Dan Gillespie (Newfangled Audio)
  • Athanasios Gotsopoulos (Neural DSP)
  • Yicheng Gu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
  • Pierre Guillot (IRCAM)
  • Esteban Gutiérrez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Kerry Hagan (University of Illinois)
  • Nara Hahn (University of Southampton)
  • Seungu Han (Seoul National University)
  • Laurence Hobden (Meridian Audio Ltd.)
  • Robert Hoeldrich (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz)
  • Aidan Hogg (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Nicki Holighaus (Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • Clara Hollomey (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)
  • Bo Holm-Rasmussen (Technical University of Denmark)
  • Martin Holters (Helmut Schmidt University)
  • Andrew Horner (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  • Wen-Yi Hsiao (independent researcher)
  • Ilias Ibnyahya (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Johannes Imort (Adobe Research)
  • Axel Jantsch (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Alexander Refsum Jensenius (University of Oslo)
  • Jean-Marc Jot (SonicCloud, Inc.)
  • Lauri Juvela (Aalto University)
  • Soohyun Kim (CCRMA, Stanford University)
  • David Kim-Boyle (The University of Sydney)
  • Simon King (The University of Edinburgh)
  • Ryoho Kobayashi (J.F. Oberlin University)
  • Panayiotis Kokoras (University of North Texas)
  • Kazunobu Kondo (Yamaha Corp.)
  • Matthieu Kowalski (Univ Paris-Sud)
  • Mathieu Lagrange (Ls2n cnrs)
  • Gyubin Lee (Korea Advanced Institution of Science and Technology)
  • Jin Woo Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Sungho Lee (Seoul National University)
  • Wei-Hsiang Liao (Sony Corporation)
  • Johan Lilius (Åbo Akademi University)
  • Christian Limberg (National Institute of Informatics (NII))
  • Yunyi Liu (University of Sydney)
  • Filipe Cunha Monteiro Lopes (Escola Superior de Educação - P. Porto)
  • Xinmeng Luan (McGill University)
  • Alexey Lukin (iZotope, Inc.)
  • Pierre Mahé (Stryker)
  • Pasquale Mainolfi (Dept. of New Technologies and Musical Languages, Conservatorio Statale "G. Martucci")
  • Ayoub Malek (Huawei Munich Research Center)
  • Sylvain Marchand (University of La Rochelle)
  • Nils Marggraf-Turley (Imperial College London)
  • Matija Marolt (University of Ljubljana)
  • Oliviero Massi (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Russell McClellan (independent researcher)
  • Thomas Mckenzie (University of Edinburgh)
  • Andrew McPherson (Imperial College London)
  • Alessandro Ilic Mezza (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Romain Michon (INRIA)
  • Stepan Miklanek (Department of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology)
  • Stylianos Mimilakis (Neural DSP)
  • Christopher Mitcheltree (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Richard Mitic (Mälardalens Universitetet)
  • Eloi Moliner (Aalto university)
  • Sarabeth S. Mullins (Treble Technologies)
  • Judy Najnudel (UVI)
  • Annika Neidhardt (Mittweida University of Applied Sciences)
  • Shahan Nercessian (Splice)
  • Søren Nielsen (SoundFocus ApS and Aarhus University)
  • Xinlei Niu (Australian National University)
  • Stephen Oxnard (Meridian Audio Ltd.)
  • Rui Pedro Paiva (University of Coimbra)
  • Côme Peladeau (LTCI Telecom Paris)
  • Yueh-Po Peng (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica)
  • Pedro Pestana (UCP)
  • Nils Peters (Trinity College Dublin)
  • Jean-Francois Petiot (École Centrale de Nantes)
  • Mirco Pezzoli (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Coriander V. Pines (independent researcher)
  • David Poirier-Quinot (Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert)
  • Niels Henrik Pontoppidan (Eriksholm Reserach Centre, Oticon A/S)
  • Karolina Prawda (Aalto University)
  • Rudolf Rabenstein (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
  • Pavel Rajmic (Brno University of Technology)
  • Mark Rau (MIT)
  • Christopher Ringhofer (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • Thomas Risse (IRCAM - Sorbonne Université)
  • Luis Rivera (Universidad Del Valle de Guatemala)
  • Fanny Roche (Arturia)
  • Gerard Roma (University of West London)
  • Dirk Roosenburg (independent researcher)
  • Jonas Roth (ETH Zurich)
  • Robert Rowe (New York University)
  • David Roze (STMS lab, CNRS-IRCAM-SU)
  • František Rund (CTU FEE)
  • Riccardo Russo (University of Bologna)
  • Roope Salmi (Aalto University Acoustics Lab)
  • Mark Sandler (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Parakrant Sarkar (City University of Hong Kong)
  • Carla Scaletti (Symbolic Sound Corporation)
  • Michele Scarpiniti (DIET, "Sapienza" University of Rome)
  • Gary Scavone (McGill University)
  • Matteo Scerbo (University of Surrey)
  • Samuel Schachter (Fractal Audio Systems)
  • Frank Schultz (University of Rostock)
  • Donald Schulz (Huawei)
  • Fares Schulz (Audio Communication Group, Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Simon Schwär (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen)
  • Daniel Scorranese (Conservatory "A. Casella", L'Aquila)
  • Rod Selfridge (Edinburgh Napier University)
  • Xavier Serra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Jordie Shier (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Riccardo Simionato (University of Bordeaux)
  • Travis Skare (Stanford University)
  • Paris Smaragdis (MIT)
  • Matthew Smart (University of Huddersfield)
  • Julius Smith (CCRMA, Stanford University)
  • Tamara Smyth (University of California San Diego)
  • Domenico Stefani (University Of Trento)
  • Francis Stevens (University of York)
  • Christoph Studer (ETH Zurich)
  • Li Su (Academia Sinica)
  • Eto Sun (McGill University)
  • Shinnosuke Takamichi (The University of Tokyo)
  • Tony Tew (University of York)
  • Etienne Thoret (Schulish School of Music, McGill University)
  • Joseph Timoney (Maynooth University)
  • Marco Tiraboschi (University of Milan)
  • Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana)
  • Alex Tung (MIT)
  • Luca Turchet (University of Trento, DISI)
  • Daniel Turner (University of York)
  • Luna Valentin (Stanford, CCRMA University)
  • Akito van Troyer (Berklee College of Music)
  • Maarten Van Walstijn (Queen's University Belfast)
  • Julian Villegas (University of Aizu)
  • Gualtiero Volpe (InfoMus-DIST-University of Genoa)
  • Henrik von Coler (School of Music, Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Vesa Välimäki (Aalto University)
  • Aogu Wada (AlphaTheta Corporation)
  • Russell Wedelich (Eventide, Inc.)
  • Wolfram Emmanuel Weingartner (independent researcher)
  • Jeremy Wells (Creative Ltd.)
  • Kurt Werner (Soundtoys)
  • Kin Hong Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Alec Wright (University of Edinburgh)
  • Lonce Wyse (National University of Singapore)
  • Chin-Yun Yu (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Victor Zappi (Northeastern University)
  • Miguel Zea (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala)
  • Zhe Zhang (National Institute of Informatics, SOKENDAI)
  • Haowen Zhao (University of York)
  • Victor Zheleznov (University of Edinburgh)
  • Franz Zotter (Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Kunstuni Graz)
  • Michal Švento (FEEC, Brno University of Technology)